Basic Information:
Name: Hou Zhenwu
Address: School of Philosophy, Nankai University 311
Email: houzhenwu0034@126.com
Hou Zhenwu was born in January 1988. He studied at the College of Philosophy of Nankai University from 2006 to 2015, and received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a PhD degree. 2016-2018, he engaged in postdoctoral research at the School of Philosophy of Beijing Normal University. Now he is an Assistant Professor at the College of Philosophy of Nankai University. His area of research is Western Marxist philosophy, especially the social critical theory of Frankfurt School.
Course:
Dialectics, Introduction to Modern Critical Philosophy, Introduction to Western Marxist Philosophy, Research on the Foundational Theory of Marxist Philosophy, German Marxist Philosophy
Articles:
(1) Hou Zhenwu, Yang Geng: A Reconsideration of Marx's Theory of Communication, Philosophical Research, No.7, 2018.
(2) Hou Zhenwu, Huang Yaming: The Carnival of Origin, System and Reification:Fascism in Against Epistemology: A Metacritique, Modern Philosophy, No.4, 2019.
(3) Hou Zhenwu: The Controversy and It’s Essence between Subject-Paradigm and Intersubject -Paradigm: Taking Frank and Habermas as Examples, Tianjin Social Sciences, No.4, 2018.
(4) Hou Zhenwu: The Dualization of Practical Rationality in German Classical Philosophy and Marx's View of Practice, Fujian Tribune, No.3, 2017.
(5) Xing Yunwen, Hou Zhenwu: What is Moral? Arendt’s Critique of Kantian Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Trends, No. 11, 2016.
(6) Wang Nanshi, Hou Zhenwu: The Unique Approach of Critique of Modernity, Study & Exploration, No.5, 2016.
(7) Wang Nanshi, Hou Zhenwu: The Twofold Logic and Significances of the Sinicization of Marxist Philosophy, Philosophical Research, No.9, 2014.
(8) Hou Zhenwu: The Proletarian Party as A “Phenomenologist”, Modern Philosophy, No.5, 2014.
(9) Hou Zhenwu: Between Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity: on Arendt and Habermas’ Standpoints of Critique of Modernity, Tianjin Social Sciences, No.5, 2014.
(10) Hou Zhenwu, Huang Yaming: The Problem of Unity in Arendt’s of Judgment : An Investigation Based on the Perspective of Practical Philosophy, Social Sciences in Yunnan, No.2, 2014.
(11) Hou Zhenwu: On the Tension between Arendt’s Two Concepts of Judgment: A Survey Based on the Dual Perspectives of Actors and Observer, Theoretical Investigation, No.2, 2014.
(12) Hou Zhenwu: The Occurrence and Problems of the Concept of Practical Reason: From Socrates to Aristotle, Journal of Nanjing Normal University(Social Science Edition), No.1, 2013.
(13) Wang Nanshi, Hou Zhenwu: How Can It Be Possible for the Self-awareness, Self-confidence and Self-strengthening of Culture?, Studies on Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories, No.8, 2011.
Translations:
(1) Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, translated by Hou Zhenwu, from English to Chinese, China Renmin University Press, 2019.
(2) Axel Honneth, Eine soziale Pathologie der Vernunft. Zur intellektuellen Erbschaft der kritischen Theorie, translated by Hou Zhenwu, from German to Chinese, Tianjin Social Sciences, No.4, 2016.
(3) Axel Honneth, Von Adorno zu Habermas. Zum Gestaltwandel kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie, translated by Hou Zhenwu, from German to Chinese, Chinese Journal of Contemporary Values, No.1, 2018.
(4) Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Geistige und körperliche Arbeit : zur Epistemologie der abendländischen Geschichte, translated by Xie Yongkang and Hou Zhenwu, from German to Chinese, Nanjing University Press, 2015.
(5) Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol.1, from German to Chinese, The Commercial Press, 2018 (4 words).
Main Projects:
(1) NSSFC: On Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Rationality (19FZXB099)
(2) China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: The Theory of Communication under the Debate between Subject-Paradigm and Intersubject-Paradigm: Marx and Habermas (2016M591110)
(3) The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: A Study of the Intersubjective Philosophy of the Frankfurt School (63192129)
